Kingston Adopts the Telephone

The Summer Meeting in Kingston

The fifty-eighth Summer Meeting and the thirty-fourth Colloquium of the American Mathematical Society were held at Queen's University and the Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, from August 31 to September S, 19S3 in conjunction with meetings of the Canadian Mathematical Congress, the Mathematical Association of America, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Economic ...

The JAAD adopts the CONSORT statement.

Imaging the Egyptian Obelisk at Kingston Lacy

The obelisk that stands in the grounds of the National Trust property at Kingston Lacy, Dorset, was brought from Egypt in 1821 by William John Bankes. Known as the Philae obelisk, it has hieroglyphic inscriptions on the tapered granite column and Greek on the pedestal. In a multidisciplinary project to mark the success of the Philae comet mission, the inscriptions have been digitised by both re...

Breast feeding in Kingston, Jamaica.

Grantham-McGregor, S. M., and Back, E. H. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 404. Breast feeding in Kingston, Jamaica. A longitudinal study was carried out on 300 Kingston infants born at the University Hospital of the West Indies. The method of milk feeding and the reasons given by the mothers for beginning bottle feeding were recorded. Other factors influencing the incidence of bre...

Presenilin adopts the ClC channel fold

Presenilin is an integral membrane aspartate protease that regulates cellular processes by cleaving proteins within the cell membrane. The recent crystal structure of presenilin reveals a conspicuous pore in a bundle of nine α-helices, which was originally thought to adopt a novel protein fold. However, here I show that the presenilin fold is a variant of the ClC chloride channel/transporter fo...